Fact is, Grant and Hepburn display impeccable comic timing at a breakneck pace and the “intercostal clavicle” Grant’s paleontologist is searching for in the movie has become something of an iconic reference.

I also think that anyone who just wants to be a "paleontologist" should prep for at least a short amount of time so they have a better understanding of how it works and so you have more respect for preparators.

The parade of dinosaurs is led by an on-stage "paleontologist," Huxley, who walks among the dinosaurs and explains what the audience is watching, while describing changes in the earth's history, through different prehistoric eras.

So by all means, explain this to me — what exactly, in your opinion, makes a chemist or a mathematician eminently more qualified than an anthropologist or paleontologist to decide how human life originated?

A young person of my acquaintance used this word frequently when she was about six years old. At dinner with friends--mostly adults except for this child--I was talking to someone else, but suddenly there was a noticeable silence to my left. I thought some awfully tactless thing must have come out of her mouth, but it turns out someone had asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she said "A paleontologist." The stunned silence was because none of the adults knew what a paleontologist is and didn't want to admit it in front of the six-year-old.